Is this a special Secret Service rule applied to Latinos? Or is this just the first time somebody conspicuously vocalized the policy? Apparently, it's the latter, according to the SS, but the Regalado clip is pretty funny and, unsurprisingly, went viral.

"'You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap—'"

Hope... that's quite the Obama word. Forks and Hope... I love that. I once wrote a Civil Procedure exam with made-up facts that included a restaurant I called Forks and Hope. (That was many years ago, when I wove little jokes into the fact patterns, and if anyone had ever let on that they noticed and felt the oppression of exam-taking lightened a tiny notch, I'd still do it today.)

Took the sharp objects away from the spanish speaking folk and then fell down going up some steps. Thank goodness he isnt a republican, it would be all over for him. Getting pretty close to time to call Romney a far right conservative tea party extremist, isn't it?

So, the Secret Service is afraid of forks?! Like, someone is going to fling a fork at the President and somehow cause injury? Did they have some knowledge that Bullseye might be in attendance? (http://marvel.com/universe/Bullseye)

Or is this specifically "racist" because they are afraid of "Latinos being good with knives"? (Of course, they're actually butter knives, because that's all you get at a function like this). Unless the Latinos somehow used a great deal of ingenuity to sharpen these "instruments of death", I think this is ridiculous.

It's not like somebody tried to throw a shoe at him, which he could simply dodge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSHNRNi91wQ

Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in pig Tate’s belly. Wild! Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson!

Obama hangs out with these people. That fact alone ought to have alerted Althouse and every thinking person to the incipient disaster Obama represented in 2008. You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.

Goops they lick their fingers, And the Goops they lick their knives;They spill their broth on the tablecloth-- Oh, they lead disgusting lives!The Goops they talk while eating, And loud and fast they chew;And that is why I'm glad that I Am not a Goop--are you?

Unless the Latinos somehow used a great deal of ingenuity .. in venezuela´s jail con are armed with AK 47 but before the goverment handed them those they used chuzos..a piece of steel usually from bed that became mortal weapon.

If it's common practice, why hasn't anyone commented on it before? I can't find any references to it happening with Bush. (I thought that would be easier to search for precedence and not get all the ones from this dinner.) The only thing I've found so far appears to be a joke:

"The parties are being toned down because the incoming Obama Administration is serious about changing the way lobbyists conduct business. New ethics rules mean that knives and forks, as well as plates wider than 15cm, are banned for any party for politicians or government officials."

We were eating at a restaurant once when President Bush was also there. It was an unannounced visit and a pleasant surprise for us. No one took any of our cutlery.

I find the left pathologically weird and vile. Consider Dohrn cheering the gruesome murder of Sharon Tate. Why? Because Sharon Tate was part of the 1%.

Who is Sharon Tate? Wife of Roman Polanski, famous filmmaker and artist.

Jump forward a decade or two. Polanski would rape a 13-year-old girl. Not just statutory rape. Rape rape. Drugged her and raped her. And fled our country to avoid jail.

To this day, Roman Polanski is thought to be a celebrity in the circles of Hollywood. He is celebrated like Bernardine Dohrn is celebrated.

The left may pretend they hate the 1%. That's the story for the rubes. When Dohrn was young, she believed it. She was almost exactly like one of these Occupy idiots.

But when she got out of jail, did she suffer? Was she forced to move to a trailer park and get a job in a grocery store?

What, are you kidding?

Dohrn may have a pathological hatred of the 1%, but she is the 1%. She's a hypocrite. Like Obama is a hypocrite. Rich, powerful, a celebrity. She enjoys her entitled status.

The left is the upper class in our country. They are rich. They are decadent. They are corrupt. They are the old guard. And they use rhetoric designed to fool the poor into giving them power, authority, and riches.

Who is the true enemy of Dohrn, Ayers, Obama? That's obvious. The middle class.

Mary BethI don't know if it's common practice or not, but things have changed in the last few years. Many schools will only allow children to have plastic sporks to eat lunch with. I'm not a fan of that kind of nannyism, but it happens. I' m simply saying if that's the way all dinners with the president go it seems silly to make a big deal about this single occasion.

If you're at a lunch or dinner with white people and you are served pre-cut-up food on small plates and your forks are collected before you've finished your pie, it's because of white privilege that you don't have to wonder if it's due to some lingering stereotype of the Norse tolerating or even celebrating boys who kill playmates with axes.

But because you don't have that privilege of not seeing yourself primarily as your racial identity and don't get to view events as entirely separate from your race, because you're at a dinner that's all for Hispanics, you've got to wonder if the Secret Service thinks anyone named Regalado is potentially a coyote or member of a Mexican cartel.

And even if you admit that this is the rule for majority white-Anglo events as well, you aren't *priviledged* to discount the possibility that at those events the matter was handled in a less insulting way.

I'm still looking for any mention of this happening before. The closest I have to this so far is, "In 1669, King Louis XIV of France banned pointed knives, at the table or as weapons, trying to reduce violence."

wyo sis, I know the schools have gotten crazy about this but I think that adults are more likely to force stupid rules on kids than they are on other adults. Although, given the salt, soda, and trans-fat bans, I may be wrong about that.

Saint Croix thank you for linking that. I read that a about month ago and it had a lasting impression then I lost track of who said it and where I saw it.

I want to hate the guy, I really do. I look at photos of when he was young and now that he's old and I read all about the really bad stuff and the basic treason of hiring these two instead of exiling them. That's where I was at when I encountered the item about his mad cheffery skillz that apparently seem natural and that changed my opinion. Slowly. That is seems like a natural thing that just comes out of him forces me to be interested. I am interested. I want to see. Compare. Exchange. I feel a kindred spirit in there through the cloud of felonious crap and everything else that is bad fades. And keeps fading. To nearly nothing, and now he intrigues me. If I met him I'd want to talk to him and imagine all the while how does developing chef and hosting skills concur with propounding radical politics that include terror. Okay, you know communism, socialism, means everybody being poor together except for the leaders who always do much better

except for guys like, say, Ché,

but was and is all that trying to show people how to be wealthy or how to act at least act like it or show how the other half is living or this is what they are doing that you are missing so take it. ¿¿¿ what ???

So do you make mayonnaise all the time or just sometimes? You go ahead and let it be yellow. That's the way is should be?

Mary Beth said...Although, given the salt, soda, and trans-fat bans, I may be wrong about that.

I think Mary Beth may be on to something. The White House is taking the lead on protecting the public from dangerous eating utensils. Not to be out nanny-stated by Bloomberg, Obama's FDA is going to mandate that all food must be packaged pre-cut and issue guidelines recommending the elimination of any utensil that is sharp or pointy.

What is it about Democrats and silverware? When we were up on the Hill a bit over a year ago, we ate in the dining room, and people were still talking about getting their silverware back. Apparently, when Pelosi was Speaker, they went for biodegradable "silverware", which apparently tended to fall apart at inconvenient times due to heat, moisture, etc. Something like that. Apparently, one of the first things changed when the Republicans retook the House.

D.C. is expensive anyway, but I was surprised that the prices there were as high as they were, given the quality of the food served there. I think I would have done as well eating at the hotel first.

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